Natural Selection Section 1 Formative Assessment

How do you "win" at natural selection?

• survive

• go extinct

• survive & reproduce

What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

Which organisms are most likely to survive?

• the best adapted
• the fastest
• the strongest
• the most domesticated (tamed)

What Comments the Colony's vice governor gave to Darwin ?

• The Shape of a tortoise's shell could be used to identify which island a particular tortoise inhabitated

• The Tortois's Population is large in all Galapages islands

• The Tortois's Population is low in all Galapages islands

Darwin Collected Animals from Galapagos :

• Mockingbirds only

• Iguana

• Finshes

• All of them

Darwin noticed of his collection from the Galapagos Islands :

• Animals are in scarce

• No varities between them

• The different islands seemed to have their own slightly different varities of animals

• Finches are not available in all the islands

How did the first organisms reach the Galapagos islands

• They did not reach

• Birds and insects flown , reptiles drifted on large rafts of vegetation , Mammals arrived on boats with humans

• Mammals did not arrive.

• The local natives brought different animals to their islands

Artificial selection is directed breeding to produce offspring with ............. traits

• Desired

• undesired

• unwanted